Northumbria Police has delved into its files of unsolved crimes and is asking Chronicle readers to help put names to the faces in this gallery of shame.

Chief Supt Ian Dawes said: “These are crimes which remain unsolved, mainly offences such as theft, and while every effort is made to trace the people responsible, for a number of reasons we’ve yet to trace them. We’ve released a large number of CCTV images of people we need to speak to who we believe can help with our enquiries.

“We often rely on information from the public and I’d urge anyone who recognises the people in the images to get in touch with us.”